HealthVault Data Types

This document contains general guidelines for using the group membership data types. It does not cover all the information that is stored in the type – see the GroupMembership and GroupMembershipActivity documentation for more information. The group...

See the HealthVault Data Type Wiki for current information on using this type. This document contains general guidelines for using the body composition data type. It does not cover all the information that is stored in the type – see the BodyComposition...

See the HealthVault Data Type Wiki for current information on using this type. This document contains general guidelines for using the Health assessment data type. It does not cover all the information that is stored in the type – see the HealthAssessment...

See the HealthVault Data Type Wiki for current information on using this type. This document contains general guidelines for using the Medication and MedicationFill types. It does not cover all the information that is stored in the type – see...

We’ve been working on a new version of the Aerobic session type. We have the following goals: Split out the session sample data (such as heart rate samples) so that you only load the data that you want to use. Generalize the sample data approach to allow...

Submitted for your approval. We have two scenarios for this type: Infant growth is typically tracked using three measurements - weight, length, and head circumference. We have a good place to store weight, but no place to store head circumference. It...

We have been doing some design work around storing body composition information, and would like your comments on the following types. Does the type make sense to you as a whole, do the field names and descriptions make sense, is there something missing...

We have been working on supporting a Health assessment scenario, and are interested in your comments on the following new types. The question-answer type is used to store a question that is asked and the answer to that question, and the health-assessment...

Pulse Oximetry consists of two primary pieces of data - blood oxygen saturation level and heart rate and is typically collected by means of a device. The primary scenario supporting this update is: The consumer uses a pulse oximeter device to record...

We’ve gotten some good feedback on our proposed data type design, and we have a new one to run by you. If at all possible, we’d like to centralize feedback around these blog posts so that we only have to go to one place and so that everybody can read...

We've had a few requests asking us to add in NDC as a supported vocabulary for medication, and we'd like to have some more information on the details. First of all, we're assuming that the request is to provide the "listings" coding as part of HealthVault...

We have had a number of requests from partners to revise the Medication data type, and this post describes our current thoughts in this area. We would like to have your feedback on whether this meets your needs and works well for your scenarios. We are...

As we modify existing HealthVault data types to better meet the needs of our partners, one of the issues we're examining is versioning. Consider the following situation: Application A is deployed using the current version of the Encounter type (let...

Family Health History is an update to the existing Family History data type that now gives you a way to store family member specific information such as name, relationship, and DOB and the ability to store multiple conditions for each family member. To...

Thank you everyone for the comments on this data type. We'd like to continue taking feedback over the next week on the preview version of this new data type. To help you review the type, here is a graphical representation of the current version: http...

We have now finished the design phase of the Lab Test Results data type which is intended to store, as the name implies, the results from lab tests. This data type has undergone several primary changes which include: The ability to store the...

We are planning on adding a new type named "Concern". The purpose of concern is to store the concerns that the owner of the health record currently has. Examples would include "worried about losing my hair", "concerned about my eyesight", or "I'm getting...

The collection of data types that store lab test results is being updated to include new fields and restructuring of existing fields. An example of one of the proposed updates is to create a new field to store the contact information of the individual...

We have completed the design phase of some modifications to the Encounter type designed so that it can hold information about a hospitalization. The changes are as follows: The type of the "Type" member was changed from string to CodableValue...

Medication data in HealthVault is currently represented by a single data type that includes both medication prescription information and medication fulfillment information. When considering the roles involved with these two very distinct actions, the...

The body composition data type allows the user to store information on various properties of their body such as percent body fat, percent body water, muscle mass, and other properties that help describe the composition of the human body. A user’s body...

The following describes the Contraindication type that is currently being implemented. Overview: The contraindication type is used to store substances (such as drugs or foods) that interact badly with your condition or medications that you are already...

We are seeing a growing amount of interest to store the details that make up a Health Risk Assessment (HRA) and would like to invite you to comment on this new data type request if your HealthVault integration plans include this type of information. In...

We have had a request to store summary information about a hospitalization, including admission and discharge dates, the name and location of the hospital and some comments. This may result in a new type, or perhaps the modification of an existing type...

We're building the HealthVault platform incrementally, and part of that process is the creation or modification of data types on the platform. We're revising how we handle that process, and part of the revision involves providing more information to...